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THE
END
Or
TIME.
[DrsC.
T.
inward terrors
would
sting their souls to death,
if
there
could
be
any such thing
as dying
there.
Such
sighs,-
and
sobs,
and
bitter
agonies would break
their hearts,
and
dissolve
their
being,
if
the
heart
could break,
or
the being
could
be dissolved
:
But
immortality
is
their dreadful
portion
:
immortality
of
sorrows, to
punish
their
wicked
and
wilful
abuse
of
time,
and
that
waste
of
the means
of
grace
they were guilty
of
in
their mortal state.
["
Here
this
discourse may be divided.
")
I
proceed
in
the
last
place, to consider
what
reflexions
may
be
made
on this discourse,
or what are
some
of
the
profitable lessons to
be
learned
from
it.
Reflection I.
We
may
learn, with
great
evidence, the
inestimable worth and value
of
time,
and particularly
to
those,
who.
are
not
prepared
for
eternity. Every
hour
you
live,
is
an
hour
longer
given you to
prepare
for
dying, and
to save a soul.
If
you were
but
apprized
of
the worth
of
your
own souls,
you would
better
know
the
worth
of
days
and
hours,
and
of
every passing moment,
for
they
are
given to
secure your immortal interest; and
save a soul from everlasting
misery. And you
would be
zealous and importunate
in
the prayer
of
Moses,
the
man
of
God,
upon
the
meditation
of
the
shortness
of
life
;
Ps.
xc.12.
"
So
teach
us
to
number
our
days, as
to
apply
our,
hearts
to
wisdom-
:"
that
is,
so
teach
us to
con-
sider, how
few
and uncertain our
days are,
that
we
may
be truly
wise
in
preparing
for
the
end
of
them.
It
is
a
matter
of
vast importance,
to be
ever ready
for
the
end
of
time,
ready
to
hear
this awful sentence,
con
-
firmed
with
the
oath of
the
glorious angel,
that
"
time shall
be no longer."
The
terrors, or the
comforts
of
a dying
bed depend upon
it
:
The
.solemn and
decisive voice
of
judgment depends
upon it
:
The joys
and
the sorrows
of
a
long eternity,
depend upon
it
:
Go
now,
careless
sinner,
and,
in
the
view
of
such
things
as these,
go..
and
trifle,_
away
time,
as you have
done
before;
time,
that invalu-
able
treasure!
Go, and venture
the
loss
of
your
souls;
and the
hopes
of
heaven, and
your
eternal
happiness,
in
.
wasting
away
the
remnant hours
or moments
of
life: But
remember
the
awful
voice
of
the angel
is
hastening to-
wards
:you,
and.
the sound
is
just
breaking
in
upon
you,
that
time shall
be
no
longer."
:Reflection
IL
"
A due sense
of
time,
hastening
to its